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Monday, February 21, 2011

Are you running a Blog using WordPress?

Are you running a blog using WordPress?

Are you running a blog on WordPress and want to get the ranking of your content during a search in the top of searches beating out all the competition that is out there? If you have a blog that is using a standard WordPress blog it is very important that you do some tweaking and downloading of SEO plugins. WordPress has several plugins for Search Engine Optimization or SEO.

Lets first take a look at Search Engine Optimization SEO.

Have you ever went to Google and asked Google to search for something? Of course you have. And like most people you looked at maybe the first ten things that google came up with for your search. This ranking of the search is because of a powerful web marketing technique called Search Engine Optimization or SEO. Search Engine Optimization is a technique which helps search engines like Google, Bing, and yahoo find pages for search using what is called crawlers. A crawler or Web Crawler sometimes also called Spidering is a powerful program that browses the web in a methodical fashion. SEO is vital to how your data on either an article or web page or on a blog is indexed and how well you will rank in search engines. Like most people you want to be in that top five category when you do a keyword search for your post. To get in the top rankings you need to optimize your blog or web page with Search Engine Optimization software.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for WordPress

When you set up your WordPress the standard SEO settings that comes with WordPress is very basic and standard. Too help get your blog higher in ranking when being searched some of WordPress themes offer areas that you can install WordPress Plugins for SEO. Doing a search for SEO Plugins for WordPress you will find a huge amount of them offered for download. The majorities of the SEO plugins are good but make sure that you research the SEO plugin to make sure that you the plugin that you are looking to download really will do what you are looking for. By installing a SEO plugin it will certainly help with your search engine ranking for your site. But there are still many things that you need to do to make sure that you get ranked in the top of searches. One of the most important thing is to offer good content on your site. Without good content you can have the best plugins but you are still going to be at the bottom of ranking unless you offer good content.

The “All In One SEO Pack”.

There are many SEO plugins that are available for WordPress. Do your research of a majority of them before just picking the first one that looks good. I choose the “All In One SEO Pack” for my blog. I did a lot of research and I found that this plugin was the highest recommended for what I needed. The All in one SEO Pack will take your WordPress blog and optimize the search engine settings in the blog. This plugin is user friendly and works excellent when it is first installed without much tweaking. While doing research for SEO plugins I found a lot of helpful information for tweaking this plugin in various forums. So not only will you get good advice about which plugin is good for you but also good advice as to how to tweak the plugin after you install it to get the most out of it.

Search Engine Optimizaion (SEO) is very important for any blog or webpage. Do all you can to educate yourself to get the best performance and ranking that you can. When it comes to Web2.0 and SEO in today’s highly competitive Internet world you need to do everything possible to get your rank up to the top and to keep it at the top. For additional information that may help you consider dropping by and checking out other discussions on this and other topics of interest.